From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: gnumaint changes Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:11:37 +0200 Message-ID: <87lgahj206.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180627082345.5a23mezrrltcdbnl@abyayala> <8736x7pu2k.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8lnoeti.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdFqG-0006Jd-GC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:11:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdFqF-0001Ac-8E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:11:40 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdFqF-0001AY-4v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2018 10:11:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87h8lnoeti.fsf@gnu.org> (Mike Gerwitz's message of "Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:55:05 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mike Gerwitz Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello Mike, Mike Gerwitz skribis: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 21:40:19 -0400, Mike Gerwitz wrote: >> I'll have to look at what guix/gnu-maintenance.scm does, but: > > [...] > >> Rather than get rid of gnupackages.txt completely, I wrote a script last >> week to generate it from rec/gnupackages.rec. The formats are largely >> the same---it's possible that you can use the recfile directly. >> However, if you still need the old format, just run >> `make gnupackages.txt`. > > Ah, I see, it fetches that single file over HTTP. Certainly running > `make` (or the underlying gawk script) is undesirable in that situation. > > Can someone with more knowledge of what this is used for run a couple of > tests to see what is broken if you use rec/gnupackages.rec instead? > Worst case, I can commit gnupackages.txt until the script can be > updated, but I'd prefer to keep generated files out of the repository. > > pkgblurbs.txt has also been replaced by rec/pkgblurbs.rec. Commit daf76c7cd54df428abc28d490747c7f83a844df0 changes gnu-maintenance.scm to use the .rec files. Thanks for the heads-up. > If anyone here also knows of any other external systems pulling from > womb, please lmk. I wasn't aware that anyone outside of maintainers@ > used that repo, tbh. It=E2=80=99s used by =E2=80=98guix import gnu=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98guix li= nt -c gnu-descriptions=E2=80=99 currently. It=E2=80=99d be nice if synopses and descriptions in the Womb could contain Texinfo markup. In fact, perhaps it=E2=80=99d make sense to reverse the roles, i.e., have t= he Womb take (some of its) descriptions from Guix? Ludo=E2=80=99.